elucidative

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There is incidentally a quantity of autobiographic record in my notes to this manuscript; but except as subsidiary and elucidative of the text I put no value on such.

From The Life of Froude by Paul, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield)

I have thus, I believe, stated all the material facts that have any elucidative bearing upon this mysterious occurrence.'

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

In looking at this wreck of Governments in all European countries, there is one consideration that suggests itself, sadly elucidative of our modern epoch.

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas

The following letter from John Ross to Pike, which is number nine in the John Ross Papers in the Indian Office, is elucidative.

From The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Abel, Annie Heloise

I now propose to bring together a series of facts specially elucidative of the harrowing theme.

From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Steinmetz, Andrew